President Biden’s re-election campaign criticized former President Donald Trump on Tuesday after he said he would fire the Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy (OPPR).
OPPR was established in 2022 in response to the government’s failure to respond to the coronavirus pandemic.playing cards said in an interview with TIME I don’t need that office on Monday.
Trump said his office is “a way to hand out pork.” “I think it’s a good thing politically, but I think it’s a very expensive solution to something that’s not working. Once we realize that’s happening, we have to act quickly.”
The Biden campaign slammed Trump for the idea, noting that the former president’s response to the coronavirus pandemic in early 2020 was lackluster and lacked a clear plan.
“For the millions of Americans who have lost loved ones to President Donald Trump’s mismanagement of the coronavirus pandemic, pandemic preparedness is not an abstraction,” campaign spokesman Kevin said. Munoz said in a statement to The Hill.
“We all know the impact of President Trump’s poor leadership. The economy is in shambles, schools are closed, and too many American lives are needlessly lost,” he said. continued. “We cannot afford to go back.”
Muñoz also served as the White House press secretary on the coronavirus during the first months of his presidential term.
President Trump pledges to disband OPPR after taking office excluded A similar pandemic preparedness task force was established in 2018. The National Security Council’s Global Health Security and Biodefense Division was disbanded during NSC reorganization, with many of its staff leaving their jobs or being absorbed into other NSC divisions.
Established in 2015 after the Ebola outbreak, the unit was intended to develop response plans and logistical preparations for an outbreak within the country. Biden’s successor administration, OPPR, is already working on a response to bird flu outbreaks among American livestock this year.
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